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Bus driver from massive fatal highway crash indicted

Haim Bitton, the Egged bus driver who allegedly causing a devastating highway crash near the Latrun junction in which six died and nine were injured on February 14, was indicted for negligent homicide in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Traffic Court on Wednesday.

The accident was one of the worst in recent memory and rattled the country for days.

The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, which filed the indictment, also asked that his driver’s license be canceled.